Title

Commentary On The Coordinates Of Coordination And Collaboration

Abstract

The contributions comprising this volume address, directly or indirectly, the following basic questions: What makes a team a team, as opposed to just a group? What has to happen for an aggregate of individuals to truly cohere into a team? What are the conditions for this coherence to occur? Various answers to these questions may be posed, as well as various versions of these questions, depending on the particular context, situation, and disciplinary stance. Yet the singular term team still appropriately applies in and through these different approaches and contexts, and such apparent consistency of application would seem to indicate a certain consistency of meaning. Several general elements are indeed enumerable, including subordination of members to some common goal, clearly defined roles, and a certain set of prepared and expected actions. But it is the concept of coordination that captures many of these characteristics and seems to be at the crux of what we mean by team. Furthermore, the concepts of coordination and collaboration, in their contrast and continuity, serve to mutually illuminate one another, and together provide a means of elaborating and elucidating team process and performance.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

Theories of Team Cognition: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Number of Pages

571-596

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203813140-37

Socpus ID

85076309071 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85076309071

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